Flickr adds mapping, geotagging

Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!

Flickr adds mapping, geotagging

by Jordan Running Aug 28th 2006

Today Flickr seriously pumped up its geotagging support and added Yahoo! Maps integration. The announcement in the Flickr blog links to a few screencast tutorials that make geotagging, i.e. associating photos with particular locations on the map, look pretty easy. It's done through the ~~Flash~~ Ajax-based Organizr tool, and basically you select a bunch of your photos and then drag them to the location you want to tag them with on the map. Similarly, you can explore other people's photos with a new map interface. You can go to flickr.com/map to see everybody's photos and search by location and/or tag. Naturally, it's all done through the Yahoo! Maps API, which means you can zoom and pan around as well as see a satellite photo or hybrid view of the map. The Flickr update also includes integration with Upcoming.org: you can now tag your photos with a special tag for an Upcoming.org event and they'll be displayed on the Upcoming page for that event. Neat.

[Via Waxy.org]

Tags: flickr, geocoding, geotag, geotagging, gps, map, mapping, photography, photos, upcoming, upcoming.org, yahoo, yahoomaps

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pat Cavit said 6:24PM on 8-28-2006

Organizr isn't flash anymore, they switched it earlier this year and it's now all Javascript.

Qwfwq said 6:58PM on 8-28-2006

It looks like a very nicely done mashup, and a good example of how all these services that have been released by Yahoo! (and likewise for Google, etc) are starting to become more integrated.
Flickr seems to be getting more and more ahead of the photo sharing business and all the other similar service providers have their work cut out for them if they want to catch up.

David said 7:48PM on 8-28-2006

This is really great although the yahoo maps used are way too basic and the satelite photos look like a kids crayon drawing (in England anyway).

rfbjames said 5:15AM on 8-29-2006

This is simply awesome!

Eduardo Manchon said 8:48PM on 8-29-2006

For those who are interested in areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, Panoramio can be an alternative.

In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You also can watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.

Eduardo

Chris Smith said 10:57AM on 9-05-2006

Flickr's got some great privacy features for the map settings as well -- great idea.

I've detailed how the geotag information (longitude and latitude values) can be found at my blog entry on the subject as well:

http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2006/09/01/flickr-adds-geotagging-features

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